Architecture of an IoT and Blockchain Based Medication Adherence Management System

摘要

Ensuring optimal medication adherence is a complex problem and require involvement of multiple stakeholders in a healthcare system. Poor medication adherence leads to severe health consequences as well a serious increase in healthcare costs. To address the problem of medication nonadherence, technological solutions which use Medication Event Monitoring Systems (MEMS) combined with in-person interventions have been recommended by researchers. In this paper, we elaborate the architecture of an IoT and blockchain based medication adherence system that uses a newer generation MEMS device developed by Baswen Medication. The system consists of the functionalities for stakeholder registration, device configuration, medication adherence data management and reminder/notification support to increase degree of medication adherence. We justify the advantages of using blockchain technology and report on the progress of system development.